Impact! When you one revisits. Recollects. Remembers. Rereads a single comic book issue. That impact was the one and only Justice League of America #200!
Imagine the JLA in their classic Bronze (and Silver Age) prime in an all anniversary issue. With the hottest new artists and classic long time artists all contributing to each chapter as the adventure unfolds.
For me this issue is and always will be the greatest Justice League issue ever published.Period.
Imagine this: George Perez, Jim Aparo, Brian Bolland, Gil Kane and many other amazing artists contributing all in one book. No ads!
Walking into the variety store that cold winter day in Toronto and seeing on the news rack, grabbing it before someone takes it, begging to have it bought for me (no allowance), well that day was a good day indeed!
Remember this was the early 80s when you could still go into the the variety store and buy a comic book and not know what to expect! No internet. No advertising. No nothing to give any fan the expectations of what would be out that week and what the books were about. It's called the way it should be! Surprise!
Most, if not all, fans of this era who were around to pick up this book all agree this issue is probably the greats issue of them all.
Here, see for yourself:
http://jlasatellite.blogspot.ca/2011/12/justice-league-of-america-200-30th.html
http://comicsauthority.com/2014/01/16/flashback-issue-bin-justice-league-of-america-200/
The only negative is the reprint of this book in the George Perez Classic Library Edition of the book, http://www.amazon.ca/DC-Comics-Classic-Library-Justice/dp/1401224504/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1428373103&sr=8-3&keywords=george+perez+justice+league does not live up to the same print quality as the newsprint versions, it's like they had a problem with the master files/negatives when they went to reprint them and has this second generation printed look, even though it's on a higher end paper stocks. The thickness of the lines seem to curve different, it has an odd threshold to coin the Photoshop term. Lines have this weird almost oddly curved thing one would achieve using the many Photoshop filters. A real shame this was not reproduced to the standard that the original print achieved.
The original is a must!
Impact! Art! Story! Talents! Icons! Sequential storytelling!
That's Justice League of America #200!
Walking into the variety store that cold winter day in Toronto and seeing on the news rack, grabbing it before someone takes it, begging to have it bought for me (no allowance), well that day was a good day indeed!
Remember this was the early 80s when you could still go into the the variety store and buy a comic book and not know what to expect! No internet. No advertising. No nothing to give any fan the expectations of what would be out that week and what the books were about. It's called the way it should be! Surprise!
Most, if not all, fans of this era who were around to pick up this book all agree this issue is probably the greats issue of them all.
Here, see for yourself:
http://jlasatellite.blogspot.ca/2011/12/justice-league-of-america-200-30th.html
http://comicsauthority.com/2014/01/16/flashback-issue-bin-justice-league-of-america-200/
The only negative is the reprint of this book in the George Perez Classic Library Edition of the book, http://www.amazon.ca/DC-Comics-Classic-Library-Justice/dp/1401224504/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1428373103&sr=8-3&keywords=george+perez+justice+league does not live up to the same print quality as the newsprint versions, it's like they had a problem with the master files/negatives when they went to reprint them and has this second generation printed look, even though it's on a higher end paper stocks. The thickness of the lines seem to curve different, it has an odd threshold to coin the Photoshop term. Lines have this weird almost oddly curved thing one would achieve using the many Photoshop filters. A real shame this was not reproduced to the standard that the original print achieved.
The original is a must!
Impact! Art! Story! Talents! Icons! Sequential storytelling!
That's Justice League of America #200!
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